Spiratual Relationship with the Nature

The spiritual relationship between humans and nature has existed for thousands of years. It was started before we were ever born. Nature is part of us whether we know it or not and it is mentioned everywhere. Nature becomes part of the humanЎ¦s life and we are inseparable from it. I believe it is possible that we, as human beings, can have a spiritual relationship with nature because it is in our blood. Literature can express these emotions, feelings, and thoughts towards the natural world and it also helps to document the past experiences and assists man in understanding and appreciating nature more and more as the time goes by.

Humans are animals. We are just as good as all other living things on this earth. We are no better than the fish, the birds, and the dogs nor the trees and flowers. We might be smarter, but it does not make us better, and we will never be. Humans are part of the residences on this planet just like everything else, we are all equal, and share the same rights. We can not live without water, air, and food such as meat and vegetables nor can other living things. Surviving all depends on collective memory and cooperation.

In Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination by Leslie Marmon Silko, she expresses her cultureЎ¦s beliefs. She believes that everything in the landscape becomes part of the story and what they are and believe. There is a story to everything, the stone on the ground, the tree beside the river, and wind brushing through the finger tip. She also mentions that after death we all turn into bone and dust and then we are back into the ground, back to the arms of mother earth. Our body becomes part of the plant, the others, and everything. The spirit will last forever up above the earth as a whole.

In the book called The Education of Little Tree (Me and Grandpa) by Forrest Carter, Little Tree is an eight-year-old boy who has just lost both his parents and been sent to his Cherokee grandparents in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee during the 1930s. Throughout this book, it describes the life experiences of Little Tree learning from nature. He learns how to understand the soul of the tree, the language of the wind, and the singing of the birds, and also knows how to fit into the nature and become one with it. As long as you live in peace with the nature, it shall provide you with everything that you need. When you discover a wonderful thing, the first thing you are going to do is share it with everyone you meet and that is the way great things get spread around in the world freely. It is all the little things that matter. You learn how to be kind, humble, graceful, and thankful from nature.

SilkoЎ¦s text can help CarterЎ¦s spatiality with nature because they both believe that there are spirits and souls in every living thing. They believe that everything has its own story and its own history. Mankind should be respectful and appreciate all those living things. They also believe that man shall not be fearful of death; it is the cycle of life, if there is a light, then it must has a shadow, if there is truth, then it must have fault, and if there is life, then it must have death. Even though the body will vanish in time, the soul and beliefs shall never fade away. Our love and strength will always last. This is mentioned in both Silko and CarterЎ¦s texts. In SilkoЎ¦s text, it was mentioned in the beginning, and it explained how humans